Theresa Sjoquist Quotes

#1. In my small way I became an integral part of the pottery movement, and added fuel to the fire which consumed New Zealand and and swept pottery to the forefront of the of the fifties and sixties.

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#2. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

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#3. The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

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#4. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

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#5. In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

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#6. Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord.

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#7. Leading the way forward at great cost to herself, her magnificent energy was so intense that it tumbles down still through many lives.

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#8. Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.

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#9. When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise

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#10. She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

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#11. It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer.

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#12. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

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#13. I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.

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#14. The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.

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